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Greens uneasy over Green Credit rules
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Greens uneasy over Green Credit rules

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: In the recent Green Credit Rule 2024 announced by the government to promote tree plantations on natural forest land, environmentalists see another attempt to destroy natural forests. Through the rules, the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change directed the State Forest Departments to identify degraded land parcels, including open forest and scrub land, wasteland and catchment areas, …

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India’s disputed compensatory afforestation policy at odds with new IPCC report
1 year, 9 months ago

India’s disputed compensatory afforestation policy at odds with new IPCC report

The Hindu  

Not degrading existing ecosystems in the first place will do more to lower the impact of the climate crisis than restoring ecosystems that have been destroyed – a finding that speaks to an increasingly contested policy in India that has allowed forests in one part of the country to be cut down and ‘replaced’ with those elsewhere. “We have known …

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Villager in World Heritage Site still committed to afforestation after 40 years
2 years ago

Villager in World Heritage Site still committed to afforestation after 40 years

China Daily  

Cheng Delin checks the growth of trees in Zhoujia'ao village in Yinjiang, Guizhou province, in November. Cheng, unhappy with the status quo, made a stand and started to work in his home village to stop deforestation by encouraging villagers to plant trees together. In 1982, Cheng persuaded more than 20 villagers to join his cause, and he organized a team …

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Villager in World Heritage Site still committed to afforestation after 40 years
2 years ago

Villager in World Heritage Site still committed to afforestation after 40 years

China Daily  

Cheng Delin checks the growth of trees in Zhoujia'ao village in Yinjiang, Guizhou province, in November. Cheng, unhappy with the status quo, made a stand and started to work in his home village to stop deforestation by encouraging villagers to plant trees together. In 1982, Cheng persuaded more than 20 villagers to join his cause, and he organized a team …

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Who goes there?: What we’re getting wrong about afforestation
2 years, 5 months ago

Who goes there?: What we’re getting wrong about afforestation

Hindustan Times  

“Plant a tree” is a carelessly worded slogan, botanists will tell you. New developments — housing and infrastructure projects, roads, settlements — that cut across primary forests “make up for it” by “planting trees” elsewhere. “Unfortunately there is lack of foresight when it comes to figuring out what needs to be done for these programmes to work,” said Manan Bhan, …

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